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The conversation with Bear and Benford bring us to the end—or is it a new beginning? We recall the adventures of Cyrano de Bergerac that began this book. He had journeyed to the Moon and beyond, ultimately to the sun. Mere mortality failed to slow him down. There’s much more. Witness his epitaph:
All weary with the earth too soon
I took my flight into the skies,
Beholding there the sun and moon
Where now the Gods confront my eyes.
In Nature’s infinite book of secrecy A little I can read.
The soothsayer in Antony and Cleopatra
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Letter to James Morton, 12 March 1930, in August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, eds., H. P. Lovecraft: Selected Letters III, 1929–1931, 123–129.
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Tibbetts, J.C. (2011). Epilogue: “Night Vision”. In: The Gothic Imagination. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230337961_11
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